It doesn't matter one bit if "know your type" was gender contextual or income contextual. It was still a grossly inappropriate thing to say to anyone, male or female, and discourse of this nature has no business whatsoever in any professional arena.

@grimgriz, as much as it may chafe some people, this situation had as much to do with my gender as it did with the misrepresentation of fact in the AirBnb description. It also has to do with my handicap--I am medically disabled--and the host was informed of this. Being left without my assistance animal is equatable to a paraplegic being told he can only use his wheelchair in a certain area of the establishment. This is wrong on every level. I did not immediately associate Philippe's nastiness toward me with the fact that I'm female until he blatantly ignored communication from me and began to speak only with the lone male in our group. Any woman who has ever received this kind of treatment from a bigot will instantly sympathize with my outrage. Any man who's ever been treated so dismissively will also sympathize. It's disgraceful, unprofessional, and should not be tolerated in modern free society.

As far as whether or not the account holder will/should file a complaint--I can't speak for him. In this case he was aware of the verbal exchange, but what if either verbal or physical abuse happened out of the account holder's sight, and the victim did not want to disclose it to them? Does that mean the victim is not entitled to a private, independent voice? These are all things I've considered at great length before going public with this post. No one--male, female, black, white, handicapped or physically fit--should have to rely on another person to speak for them in such a situation. It's utterly appalling that AirBnb has no system in place to deal with this type of instance.